Media seeds of doubt toppled great organization

I have both worked for, and volunteered for, Loaves & Fishes. My opinion is that, if you don’t know the whole picture, don’t try to conjure up some unfounded, inconclusive information on a more than worthwhile organization.

It looks like the local newspapers were just having a witch hunt. “Assumptions” by the news media were unfair and ridiculous — anybody believing such nonsense was at the same ridiculous misconceptions as the writers.

If you averaged Brenda Allen’s hours spent in a 24-hour day working on the ultimate goal of her ministry, she probably didn’t even make minimum wage. Can she and her husband not have any money not associated with Loaves & Fishes? A new car in the driveway could be a relative or friend — even if it was hers, so what? Beach home — so what? News media just want to make something out of nothing.

Now various organizations are struggling to help but they are not the well-oiled machine that Loaves & Fishes was. Mrs. Allen is a brilliant organizer.

If anything was going on that was improper, which I feel was not, then she would ultimately have to answer for that when she stand before our Lord.

Bottom line, Loaves & Fishes fed along the line of 7,000 people per month plus other assistance. Now, that it is gone — for what? Just to appease some reporters trying to throw out negativity toward a longtime, very worthwhile Christian ministry — typical of the ways that this country is heading, just on a local level.

Once that one “seed of doubt” was printed, everyone jumped on the bandwagon and cut off support. It was hard enough to keep afloat with all the “good press,” much less when that seed hit the press. After you beat your head against a hard wall trying to keep a ministry running and then something hits print like it did, you may as well say your mission is complete — the paper completed it for her.

I just hope the people with their innuendos toward Mrs. Allen realize the error of their actions. If they don’t, they are more ignorant than I thought they were.